Twiggys Swift Rescue Sheffield

31/05/2026

Important and valuable info to read for Sheffield Residents re swift nests

30/05/2026

Announcement:-

From today I will only be taking swifts, swallows and house Martins. Now they're back in UK and breeding. I need to be on call for those and they're my priority as they require specialist care.
If you should find any of these grounded. It is an emergency. Please contact the sos team who will advise what to do and they'll liaise with me or other rehabbers.

28/05/2026

Do love a clean aviary. Won't last long lol. Pigeons just love slinging their food all over. They bath and p**p in their drinking water 🫣🤣 so it's a constant job to keep it like this. Some piccies of feathers Mcgraw, Charlie, Simon and Carly too for their finders. I'll add a video in the comments too.

28/05/2026

I'm totally over run at the minute with baby birds. I'm also struggling with a flare up of my CFS/ME. For this reason I'm not going to take anymore for a few days until I get back on top of everything. I'm going to totally burn myself out otherwise. Today alone I've had 158 WhatsApp messages!!!! I can't keep up.
I've lost count how many Bluetit babies have come in. It's crazy. Plus swallows have now started arriving too.

I did manage to release a starling fledgling and two Bluetit fledglings earlier which is always rewarding and I've given the aviary a clean out.
There's only me, I'm a One person rescue and I'm exhausted.

28/05/2026

Just want to say a huge huge thankyou to Sioux and all the staff at Duro Jakota in S20 who very genorously donated 10 x25kg sacks of pigeon feed. I easily get through a sack a week so this will help me sooo much. You really are amazing. ❤️❤️

Also to the lovely person /s who have sent me a tub of nutribird a21 formula and a pack of 15 tins of the royal canin mousse we add for extra protein. Both of these parcels came annonomously off Twiggys amazon wish list. Both were very much appreciated and definitely needed at the minute. Thankyou ❤️

Lastly a huge thankyou to Jackie Shaw for the donation of the small garden bird aviary. I will get this built ASAP and will prove invaluable for the garden birds that need soft release. ❤️

26/05/2026

Sadly has to be said as it seems to be a lot of people's immediate thought. To give water. Please don't. Just find a rescue and keep the baby warm.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Please - If you find a bird, NEVER put water in it's mouth. The little hole you can see at the back of this birds tongue is their airway. One wrong drop in there, and the bird aspirates, meaning it drowns. They can't cough the water back up, and it's a horrible death.
Baby birds get all their moisture from the food the parents feed them.
If you find an adult bird that is dehydrated, offer it some water to drink by itself, or you can dip a cotton bud in water, and wipe the tiniest bit down the side of their beak, making sure you avoid the nostrils.
People are messaging me saying they've syringed water in to a birds mouth. This is usually a death sentence, and the bird goes downhill over the next few hours.
If you find a baby bird, keep it warm. If they don't have full feathers, they need a gentle heat source. They can't make their own body heat. NEVER feed a cold bird. Their digestive system stops when cold, and this also results more often than not, in the bird dying slowly.
Warmth is key.

24/05/2026

If I don't manage to answer the phone please always send me a message. When I get two mins I do check for messages. So if you've rang and messaged I'm much more likely to get back to you as soon as I can.

There's only me here, I'm a one person rescue so please be patient.

Babies need constant feeding and are very time consuming.

24/05/2026

Intakes this afternoon and evening

Catted female sparrow. Head injury. Sadly didn't make it.

Blue tit nestling Fell from nest and it couldn't be accessed to return baby.

Teenie tiny blue tit hatchling. Found in middle of a garden. No injuries. Hours old by looks of it.

Pair of Blackbird nestlings. Found in a park. Nest fell from high in a tree with babies landing next to it. No where to put nest securely so entire thing Brought to me.

These are in addition to those I already have.